Baino, in her infinite wisdom decided to tag me with this glorious meme. Most people say that they hate meme’s, but I think they really like talking about themselves. Of course, that would include me, because I love to talk about myself. 
Here are the rules of the Meme:
Post on your blog . . .
Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
- …Ehm….I have enough titanium in my right foot to set off a metal detector from 20 metres away. Without the screws and plates, I wouldn’t be able to walk. (Do you really want to know this stuff? I don’t.)
- I love Earl Grey tea, which may not seem that odd, except for the fact that it’s an oddity where I live. I’m probably the only person within 30km to actually drink hot tea. Most people in these parts (Yes, even the civilised ones.) drink iced tea, with enough sugar in it to be as this as maple syrup. That might explain why a multitude of country people don’t have any of their teeth by the time they are thirty.
- I’m fully trained in the operation of small helicopters and (not licensed though…can’t see good enough.) small prop planes (Cessna). Did I ever mention that my pops has commercial licenses to fly helicopters and prop planes? (not rated to fly jets) He used to own a Hughes 300. Ah, those were the good ol’ days.
- I love to play in the rain! Not that sideways rain that stings, but the gentle rain that falls from the heaves in drops that make a rhythmic blooop sound, when they splatter into eternity.
- I am very methodical, when it comes to solving problems. When most people give up or get so mad they destroy whatever it is they are trying to operate or fix, I just sit back and calculate a solution. In other words, I am not easily enraged. People irritate me far faster than an inanimate objects.
- I was born and raised in the southern United States, yet I write in British English. My great grandmother ignited my interest, when I was a wee lad, but it wasn’t until about two years ago that I started favouring it over US English. I’ve had several bouts with professors over words that they marked as being misspelled or unknown, when the words are in the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries. It is not my intention to be UnAmerican, just to be who I am. Individualism used to be a good thing, but now people are tattooed as unpatriotic for such a quality.
- Speaking of language, I have a mild form of Dysarthria, which basically means that I have a bit of a problem articulating what I am trying to say. I don’t have this problem in a written form, just in verbal communication. Actually, I speak with a much more profound and polished voice, when I’ve had a drink or two. Can you explain that?
- I realise that it’s only supposed to be eight, but I like to break rules: I love the chase…..What, you ask? I think you can figure that out.
Now, who do I pester with this wonderful meme?
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Onya JD and good for you acknowleding the “Queen’s” English. It is the correct way to spell not the lazy American way . . . I don’t think it’s unAmerican to be articulate and well educated and I share your love of rain play . . especially when it’s warm and stormy! Come over and we can splash beneath the overflowing gutters one afternoon when the heat is punctuated by our regular afteroon storms! (silly people we are).
There is only one kind of English. It’s the one that spells colour with a “u” and pronounces the second “t” in twenty. Anything else is not English. It’s some other language, which is fine, provided it doesn’t try to call itself English!
As for that tag – sorry, sweetheart, but I got hit with it a few weeks ago and have done it! Whew!
It was good to learn about the hidden side of you JD.
I guarantee a year of Irish rain would soon cure you!
Like AV I did that meme before and as there are only seven facts worth knowing about me, there is no point in repeating them.
Baino, we’ll definitely have to play in the rain someday.
AV, amen sister! I had an English professor that thought my linguistic preference was quite entertaining. He agreed, but made it clear that he’d give me an “F”, if I wrote my papers in the “Queens” English. I think the “Queens” English has more “Flavour” and is far more “Amorous”.
I forgot all about you doing the meme before…Sorry…
Grannymar, I have witnessed the much loathed Irish rain.
Sorry, I forgot about you doing the meme as well.
Thanks ladies!
JD, are you busy building yourself a harem here…?
And did someone mention that Irish rain – in the year and a half that I lived in Dublin it was winter all the time – never wanted to see rain again, though, I will admit to their being something “soft” about Irish rain as in “Ah, it’s a soft day now…” Hmmm….
Harem? Nah, as far as I know, all of you wonderful/gorgeous ladies are taken.
Oh so that’s what meme is! You see, meme in Turkish means boob (colloquial) and it always makes me giggle. (yes little things like that make me giggle, still)
Well, I guess, thank you for choosing me for the meme tag. *giggle*
And thanks for sharing information about yourself.
I will do the meme *giggle* when I get back to Dublin, right now I am in Baltimore and have to sit in a pub next town (Skibbereen) to be able to connect to the internet as there is no coverage at the bungalow in Baltimore. Well, any excuse to go to the pub, right?
Gx
PS: We might be taken, but we are not dead! Right, ladies? :p
Wow!!! I will have to start using that word more often then!
Part of my family is from Baltimore…Baltimore, Maryland, USA that is. 
Well, that part of my family is originally from Scotland. I hear that Baltimore, County Cork has gorgeous shores and Magnificent whales to watch. Have a grand ol’ time, Gayé. 
And, have a few pints on my account! 